Multidisciplinary Initiatives: Recent submissions
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The Borders Within: Mobility and Enclosure in the Riau Islands
Published 2006-01-01The border studies literature makes a strong case against claims for unfettered transnationalism and ‘borderlessness’ in our ‘globalising world’. However, its focus on movement across borders means that it fails to address ...Open AccessArticle -
Translating Membership into Power at the Ballot Box? Trade Union Candidates and Worker Voting Patterns in Indonesia’s National Elections
Published 2015-01-01This article analyses the effectiveness of trade unions’ electoral engagement in the union-dense electoral localities of Bekasi and Tangerang in Indonesia’s 2009 legislative elections. Our analysis reveals that legacies ...Open AccessArticle -
Employment Relations and the State in Southeast Asia
Published 2016-01-01This article engages critically with the comparative employment relations literature, assessing its capacity to explain and analyse the relationship between state objectives – accumulation, pacification, legitimation – and ...Open AccessArticle -
The Global Union Federations in International Industrial Relations: A Critical Review
Published 2015-01-01In recent decades, trade unions have been challenged to attempt to develop new forms of representation, action and institutional engagement in response to the increasingly transnational character of production and service ...Open AccessArticle -
Regulatory Approaches to Managing Skilled Migration: Indonesian Nurses in Japan
Published 2016-01-01This article examines the Japan–Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement, an agreement that has allowed Japan to supplement its local healthcare workforce while continuing to sidestep the thorny issue of labour and immigration ...Open AccessArticle